Closed Bug 1426870 Opened 8 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Edit permission to 231062

Categories

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Editbugs Requests, task, P3)

Product:
bugzilla.mozilla.org
Component:
Editbugs Requests
Version:
Production
Type:
task

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Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: marc.bau, Unassigned)

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Details

Provide Firefox MSI package Case https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231062 has been closed, but we all still need an MSI setup. If you cannot work on this issue, but need someone to develop it, please tell me and I will share an MSI that replaces your suxxx EXE setups. Please REOPEN https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231062 so we can work on this issue.
Hi Marc, I've asked :Felipe in the bug if he'll take a patch, as this may be related to some new efforts were making around Enterprise deployments. Thank you!
Assignee: nobody → ehumphries
Depends on: MSI
There looks to be no progress and the case is still closed. Can you allow me to comment, please? How can I get in contact with reponsible people to move things in the next 4-6 weeks to a FINAL solution, after ~15 years of waiting? However - there is a strong demand to have an MSI setup and only because frontmotion provides a release every 4 weeks does not solve the general issue Mozilla has. People may use the unsupported stuff, but they are unhappy as the setup should be provided by Mozilla and not 3rd parties. I already worked on the MSI, but I do not understand some "why's" of the current NSIS setup and I do not like to take over possible "workarounds" that are not needed for the MSI if I build it. We should not force/send firefox lovers to Google Chrome just because Google has useful Enterprise capable MSI setups. Always keep in mind - Admins/Developers are multiplicators. If they deploy software to their users, they deploy it to hundreds if not thousands or more computers at once. It gives Firefox much more value than 1 end user.
Marc, I've asked :Felipe in the bug and it's his call. Thanks.
Hi Marc, There is ongoing work around supporting enterprises, of which the policy engine and policies are but one part. (There is also this, which has been proposed for the installer: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425468) We're keenly aware of the importance of our enterprise users, existing and future. We don't want to put something forward that complicates the current administration of Firefox further; and we don't want to put something forward that we cannot properly maintain in the future. In order to help us understand what is desired from an MSI setup by sysadmins, I would suggest rather than posting to a bug, to instead join the enterprise mailing list, where these things are better discussed: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise. In particular, in your case, we'd love to hear more about the MSI you worked on.
Per staff comments, resolving as WONTFIX. Please move further discussion of this to the Enterprise list. Thank you.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Thanks for your feedback, but https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1425468 does not help anything as command line arguments cannot executed at AD deployment level and we do NOT need any setup wrappers. This need to be a NATIVE MSI setup. There is no alternative to it!!! Please reopen the case and I will share a setup with you.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
The policy engine is also important, but again also has nothing to do with MSI setups.
To repeat: > In particular, in your case, we'd love to hear more about the MSI you worked on. The more information you can provide us, the better informed we can be to (hopefully) accommodate your use case.
Flags: needinfo?(marc.bau)
The use case is very simple. Enterprise customers need to deploy Firefox via Active Directory GPO. I'd also need to be able to customize the setup with MST files so it fits to us. This means an MSI setup is required. You cannot solve this without creating a MSI setup and adding more words to this in Enterprise mailing list does not change the requirement - how often you may ask. It does not change. Setup command line arguments cannot solve this MSI requirement and the policy engine also does not change the way how software need to be deployed. Can you reopen the old case, please? We need to work on this WiX setup and finish the task if Mozilla cannot ourself.
Flags: needinfo?(marc.bau)
Type: enhancement → task

Mike, is this still relevant for enterprise?

Assignee: ehumphries → nobody
Flags: needinfo?(mozilla)

We've done all we are going to do with regards to an MSI for now.

Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago → 5 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(mozilla)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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